CentOS - Aug 2013 - Intel e1000e driver bug and 82574L controller

One of the more promising solutions I'm looking at for my dual-ethernet
dual-monitor workstation contains an Intel 82574L Ethernet controller. I
found a LOT of postings regarding a bug in the driver for this controller:

http://www.doxer.org/learn-linux/resolved-intel-e1000e-driver-bug-on-82574l-ethernet-controller-causing-network-blipping/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650

but there isn't any clear indication as to whether the bug has been
resolved in mainline CentOS 6.4 or not.

Has this bug been resolved?

-G.
--
Glenn Eychaner (geychaner at lco.cl)
Telescope Systems Programmer, Las Campanas Observatory

On 08/14/2013 01:40 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote:
> One of the more promising solutions I'm looking at for my dual-ethernet
> dual-monitor workstation contains an Intel 82574L Ethernet controller. I
> found a LOT of postings regarding a bug in the driver for this controller:
>
>
http://www.doxer.org/learn-linux/resolved-intel-e1000e-driver-bug-on-82574l-ethernet-controller-causing-network-blipping/
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650
>
> but there isn't any clear indication as to whether the bug has been
> resolved in mainline CentOS 6.4 or not.
>
> Has this bug been resolved?
>
Not sure if it has been resolved or not ... BUT ... if you rebuild this
driver for your kernels, it should be solved there for sure:

http://vault.centos.org/6.4/xen4/Source/SPackages/e1000e-2.4.14-3.4.54.1.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm

(That source RPM will build the latest upstream e1000e driver on the
installed kernel)

So you should be able to use an e1000e.

Thanks,
Johnny Hughes

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On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Johnny Hughes <johnny at centos.org>
wrote:
> On 08/14/2013 01:40 PM, Glenn Eychaner wrote:
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=632650
This was filed by me. :-)
>> but there isn't any clear indication as to whether the bug has been
>> resolved in mainline CentOS 6.4 or not.
>>
>> Has this bug been resolved?
If your problem is the one addressed in the referenced BZ, as you can
see in there, the fix is in the current RHEL/CentOS 6.4. The driver
version for e1000e in the distro kernel is 2.1.4-k.
> Not sure if it has been resolved or not ... BUT ... if you rebuild this
> driver for your kernels, it should be solved there for sure:
>
>
http://vault.centos.org/6.4/xen4/Source/SPackages/e1000e-2.4.14-3.4.54.1.el6.centos.alt.src.rpm
>
> (That source RPM will build the latest upstream e1000e driver on the
> installed kernel)
If you need e1000e version 2.4.14, just install kmod-e1000e from
ELRepo. :-D Version info can be found here:

http://elrepo.org/tiki/Driver+Versions

Akemi